Anambra Has Lost 5,000 Companies —Ngige

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 14 November governorship election holding in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, Senator Chris Ngige, has disclosed that the state lost approximately 5,000 companies due to bad governance, insecurity and electricity challenge.

Ngige made this disclosure at a debate organised for the candidates in the election by the Election Debate Group Thursday morning.

According to Ngige, the figure comprises 3,500 major companies and 1,500 smaller companies.

He said if given the opportunity to govern the state, he would liaise with the Federal Government to ensure effective distribution of power as he also promised to ensure that, as a matter of urgency, the state government would create 1,000 megawatts of electricity to shore up electricity supply.

He said he would make the security of life and property an emergency issue within the first 100 days in office.

To achieve this, Ngige, who said the state was safe while he was Governor for 33 months, added that he would adopt the creative and preventive approach, the former being the creation of schemes to employ the youths of the area while the latter would involve fortifying the law enforcement agencies to combat the challenge.

He also reeled out various other programmes he has lined up for the state while recalling that as Governor, the roads he constructed were still motorable while the ones constructed by his successor had been riddled with potholes.

He said he was returning to the Government House because 70 percent of his blueprint as Governor of the state had not been implemented, adding that education in the state is now for the rich and hospitals are now makeshift outfits.

Candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Alliance for Democracy, AD, the ACD, CPP and the ACPN also participated in the debate and also spoke of their programmes.

—Eromosele Ebhomele